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Release Date: 18 February, 2003 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Eve's Bayou Reviews
Great and Heart felt Film!!!!
A truly impressive and memorable debut by Kasy Lemmons. Beautifully acted and masterfully conceived of the supernatural on the bayou. It takes you back to a time when magic and voodoo were really big and highly believed in. An absorbing story that has otherworldliness to it and that is what makes this film exceptional, everything from bayou, fortunetellers and spells are interwoven into the story in a fascinating way. But also the acting is truly impressive, not a bum characterization in the whole cast, even the younger cast members are great.
Lynn Whitfield who is beautiful and poised has delivers a powerful performance as Jackson's tortured wife who must put up with Jackson's affairs with other women to keep a stable household but yet is in denial of what is happening around her. Debbi Morgan is also memorable as Jackson's sister who has a supernatural gift. There is a scene where she explains the death of her second husband to young Smollett that is masterfully surreal, a gem of a scene that is a highpoint in the film, as is the powerful ending. The performance of Eve (Smollett) almost stopped my heart, that little girl could really make you feel what she was feeling and boy can she act. And Cisely (Good) also did a wonderful job. I really cried with her and my heart went out to her; she only loved her father.
Samuel L. Jackson delivers a powerful performance; as the doctor-father whose need for love and affirmation is so engulfing that he seeks it anywhere and everywhere.
But heading this terrific cast is the young Jurnee Smollett; she plays a key role and carries the whole film on her shoulders. A lyrical drama with surreal undertones.
A beautiful one of a kind film.
Should have won an Oscar!
This is one of the truly best movies I have seen. It touches on some of the beliefs, family "dirty little" secrets and the drama of that era that is known through-out the African-American community. The plot and screen-play is well written. This goes up there with "The Color Purple" and "Beloved". There are heavy hitters in this film, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbie Morgan and Diahann Carol, and some new-comers who will make their marks Jurnee Smollett and Meagan Goode.
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